On the use and evaluation of prospective scan methods for health-related surveillance

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 223-237

  Woodall, William H ^a   Brooke Marshall, J ^a   Joner Jr , Michael D ^a   Fraker, Shannon E ^a   Abdel Salam, Abdel Salam G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average time to signal; Cluster detection; Cumulative sum chart; Recurrence interval; SaTScanTM; Statistical process control; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149088645     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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